The Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two sessions at the AmericanLiterature Association Conference in Boston on 21-24 May 2009 at the WestinCopley Place Hotel.

1. Biographical approaches to Dreiser. Topics may include, but are notlimited to, the new edition of Dreiser letters edited by Donald Pizer,recent Dreiser biographies, Dreiser's fiction as autobiography (and hisautobiographies as fiction), contemporaries' memoirs about and memories ofDreiser, travel narrative as autobiography, the intersection of fiction andbiography in Dreiser's writing, and so on.

2. Open topic. Papers may be submitted on any topic concerning Dreiser orhis work.

Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes.

Please send brief proposals (1-2 pages) by email to the program chair by 10January 2009: